Políticas públicas e redes político-empresariais transformando a paisagem: a pomicultura no Vale do Rio do Peixe (décadas de 1970 e 1980)

Abstract

The present dissertation seeks to analyze the processes and practices with pomiculture, in which we can see an important role of the State of Santa Catarina, in the incentive to the cultivation of fruit trees, particularly, in the issue of apple, grape and plum cultivation, with the main interest in researching the Vale do Rio do Peixe region - corresponding to part of the Mesorregião Oeste Catarinense (IBGE, 1990), in the period between the 1970s and 1980s. The chosen period of time is justified because it characterizes the period in which the practice of pomiculture was accentuated in Santa Catarina as an agricultural activity of great impact under a commercial and entrepreneurial viewpoint. It was based on the epistemological concepts of the perspective of line 1 of the Postgraduate Program in History - PPGH/UFFS, that is, History of the settlement, agriculture, and environment. The study region represents an important stage for pioneer projects under private-state commitment that favored projects with temperate climate fruit farming, particularly with pomiculture, in a peculiar way. We start from the premise that state agents, by the nature of their propositions and instrumentalization, have the capacity to conceive or favor certain business practices, incorporating them in their intervention guidelines capable of producing or anticipating important transformations on the natural environment and forms of occupation of these natural environments. As a means of apprehending and describing the reality, under possible limits for the present study, governmental sources were used, comparing, or confronting them with the academic-scientific literature, in order to facilitate the discussions proposed by this research. In this way, it articulates readings of reference bibliographies, data from reports and governmental projects, relating them to data collected in field research in loco, in libraries, public and private collections, for the development of the intended research, analysis and discussions.